Tag Archives: westco cafe

An Evening with Ishmael

[ February 27, 2010 10:00 PM to February 28, 2010 1:30 AM. ] Jordan Lewis ‘12 writes in about a sweet Westco show this Saturday:
Wesleyan affiliated band Ishmael will be playing live music at the Westco Cafe on Saturday, February 27. Ishmael is Jordan Lewis and Andy Werle, along with Aaron Silberstein of NYU and Nick Otte of the New School. We will be playing at least two [...]

And You Don’t Stop!

[ February 13, 2010; 10:00 PM; ] beats.breaks.poetry.art

Check out And You Don’t Stop! for music/art/general mayhem this Saturday, Feb 13th at WestCo Cafe!

Featuring:

Sankofa (Luke Turner-Owens) on the turntables

Fusion dance troupe

Poets from Writer’s Bloc: Writer’s Bloc line-up includes Josh Smith, Randyl Wilkerson, Zach Goldberg and more!

Funk/hip-hop group MetroSonics (led by Wes Alum Paul Josephs) Check out MetroSonics website for more info: www.MetroSonicsMusic.com

Plus, live [...]

Westco Open Mic Night

[ January 27, 2010; 9:30 PM; 9:30 PM; ] Westco open mic night is back!

Lovely music, lovely people, fun times.

Date: tonight, Wednesday Jan. 27
Time: 9:47 pm (sign up to play at 9:30)
Place: Westco Cafe

Poesia eres Tu; Poetry You Are

[ December 3, 2009; 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM. ] We’ve all got a bit of poet in us. Come join Westco and Ajua Campos for the second to last LAM event(!) and celebrate Wesleyan students and outside performers demonstrate their talent through spoken word and poetry.

Poesia Eres Tu : Poetry You Are
Poetry Jam/Open Mic

Featuring performances by Writer’s Bloc and Guest Poets Liz Acevedo, Kesed [...]

WestCo/MuHo Open Mic in the Westco Cafe

[ November 11, 2009 9:30 PM to November 12, 2009 12:00 AM. November 11, 2009 9:30 PM to November 12, 2009 12:00 AM. November 11, 2009 9:30 PM to November 12, 2009 12:00 AM. November 11, 2009 9:30 PM to November 12, 2009 12:00 AM. ] Get through Hump Day (hump night?) by listening to some sweet tunes:
WestCo’s Weekly Open Mic is co-hosted by WestCo and Music House this week. We will be providing free coffee to accompany our delicious bake sale that will help fundraise for our fall festival “The 8th Day of the Week” this Saturday November
14th. [...]

Aural Wes on the Decline of the Wes Music Scene

Aural Wes, Wesleyan’s unofficial but well-pedigreed music blog,  has a very pointed editorial by senior contributor “O)))”, a.k.a. Max Lavine ‘10, who is pissed about Public Safety’s enforcement of the Code of Non-Academic Conduct in shutting down a show last weekend, and generally disappointed in a perceived decline in both the administration’s attitude and students’ [...]

WESU’s 70th Anniversary: Night Two Tonight

Three awesomely violent and noisy bands—Queening, The Unholy Two, and DRUNKDRIVER—are performing at Westco Cafe tonight in honor of WESU’s 70th Anniversary. Fans of pure, unhinged noise rock: do not miss this. More detail at Aural Wes.

What: WESU’s 70th Anniversary Concert, Night Two
Where: Westco Cafe
When: Saturday, October 10, 9:30 p.m.
Cost: Free, but bring money for [...]

WESU 70th Anniversary show at WestCo Cafe

[ October 3, 2009; 9:30 PM; ] Celebrate WESU’s 70th anniversary at the WestCo Cafe, with bands Twin Stumps, TV Ghost, FNU Ronnies, and Homostupids visiting from all over the place.

Free show, but maybe bring some cash to throw at these guys for merch/gratitude for rocking tonight.

More details at AuralWes and the Facebook event.

Date:   Saturday, Oct. 3
Time:   9:30 PM – [...]

Trance Dance Rave in WestCo Café

[ September 18, 2009; 10:00 PM; ]

From Mike Ullman ‘12:

Rave in the WestCo Café, featuring all WestCo DJs:
DJ Bastille – Mike Ullman ‘12
DJ Procrastination – Tobias Butler ‘13
DJ ??Guido Suave! – Ethan Cohen ‘13

Date: Friday, Sept. 18
Time: 10:00 PM – 2:00 AM
Place: WestCo Café
Cost: FREE

Facebook event

Also, here’s a track for free download:
Cold As Ice (Bastille Shortened Edit) – [...]

Dear Lamp Ice Cream Social At WestCo Cafe

Head over to WestCo Cafe Saturday night for ice cream, balloons, charlie brown and bands galore at the Dear Lamp Ice Cream Social.
10:30- Free ice cream, Gabriel Furtado on Guitar, Gabe and Louis Jazz Combo, Charlie Brown Christmas and a Charlie Alderman Reading
11- On Edge Dance Troupe
11:15 ish- Evan Uhlmann Band (from Bard)http://www.myspace.com/evanuhlmann
12:15 Dear Lampfeaturing [...]

Dear Lamp Ice Cream Social At WestCo Cafe

Head over to WestCo Cafe Saturday night for ice cream, balloons, charlie brown and bands galore at the Dear Lamp Ice Cream Social.
10:30- Free ice cream, Gabriel Furtado on Guitar, Gabe and Louis Jazz Combo, Charlie Brown Christmas and a Charlie Alderman Reading
11- On Edge Dance Troupe
11:15 ish- Evan Uhlmann Band (from Bard)http://www.myspace.com/evanuhlmann
12:15 Dear Lampfeaturing [...]

Failures, Total Abuse, Ripshit at WestCo Cafe

Hardcore/punk show tonight at WestCo Cafe, with Failures, Total Abuse, and Ripshit. From Aural Wes:

Failures: Breakneck 3-chord progressions recall a gaggle of coked-out lemmings, hurdling and collapsing over each other in an all-out sprint to who-the-fuck-knows-where, but without sacrificing what can’t be mistaken for anything other than high-level musicianship and tight-knit song structures, even as [...]

Failures, Total Abuse, Ripshit at WestCo Cafe

Hardcore/punk show tonight at WestCo Cafe, with Failures, Total Abuse, and Ripshit. From Aural Wes:

Failures: Breakneck 3-chord progressions recall a gaggle of coked-out lemmings, hurdling and collapsing over each other in an all-out sprint to who-the-fuck-knows-where, but without sacrificing what can’t be mistaken for anything other than high-level musicianship and tight-knit song structures, even as [...]

Math Rock and Experimental Bands at WestCo

Come see some bi-coastal Math Rock and Experimental action go down this Friday at the WestCo Cafe. The line up includes:
Little Women (Brooklyn, NY)(myspace.com/littlewomensounds)
“[Little Women] are too tight to be called free and too post-punk (no wave?) to be called jazz/rock either. They are most exciting and even throttling at times. Some of the most [...]

Math Rock and Experimental Bands at WestCo

Come see some bi-coastal Math Rock and Experimental action go down this Friday at the WestCo Cafe. The line up includes:
Little Women (Brooklyn, NY)(myspace.com/littlewomensounds)
“[Little Women] are too tight to be called free and too post-punk (no wave?) to be called jazz/rock either. They are most exciting and even throttling at times. Some of the most [...]

Bands at WestCo Cafe

Pink Reason, TV Ghost, and Twin Stumps are playing Friday night in WestCo Cafe.
Date: Friday, November 7Time: 9:00 pm – 1:30 amPlace: WestCo Cafe, free

Bands at WestCo Cafe

Pink Reason, TV Ghost, and Twin Stumps are playing Friday night in WestCo Cafe.
Date: Friday, November 7Time: 9:00 pm – 1:30 amPlace: WestCo Cafe, free

Spillway and The Spools in WestCo Cafe

Free Friday night concert in WestCo Cafe:

Come check out Wesleyan’s “THE SPOOLS” (Robby Hardesty ‘11) and Skidmore’s “SPILLWAY” (Doug Barber). Both bands will play short acoustic sets, so if you’re sticking around for Fall Break, come check them out!
We’re raising awareness for superior robots and their quest to remain superior over inferior robots, [...]

Spillway and The Spools in WestCo Cafe

Free Friday night concert in WestCo Cafe:

Come check out Wesleyan’s “THE SPOOLS” (Robby Hardesty ‘11) and Skidmore’s “SPILLWAY” (Doug Barber). Both bands will play short acoustic sets, so if you’re sticking around for Fall Break, come check them out!
We’re raising awareness for superior robots and their quest to remain superior over inferior robots, [...]

Comedy Show at Westco Cafe

Comedy Show Saturday at 8:
Chris Correa, Justin Michael Douglas, Robby Hardesty, Arie Levine, Brian Morgan, Ben Smolen, and Caitlin Winiarski. What do they all have in common? The plague. And they will be putting on a comedy show. Sketches, Standup, anything [...]

Comedy Show at Westco Cafe

Comedy Show Saturday at 8:
Chris Correa, Justin Michael Douglas, Robby Hardesty, Arie Levine, Brian Morgan, Ben Smolen, and Caitlin Winiarski. What do they all have in common? The plague. And they will be putting on a comedy show. Sketches, Standup, anything [...]

Iranian Comedy at WestCo Cafe

Farsi? Parsi? Persian? Iranian? Don’t know where Tehran is?
Come to the IRANIAN COMEDY SKIT!
Featuring the comedic talents of Toni Zosherafatain, Saeid Vahidi, and Behdad Bozorgnia! Laugh yourself silly with original stand up comedy and punch lines!
Skit is part of April Awareness Month for queer, arab/arab american, middle eastern, asian/asian american, [...]

Iranian Comedy at WestCo Cafe

Farsi? Parsi? Persian? Iranian? Don’t know where Tehran is?
Come to the IRANIAN COMEDY SKIT!
Featuring the comedic talents of Toni Zosherafatain, Saeid Vahidi, and Behdad Bozorgnia! Laugh yourself silly with original stand up comedy and punch lines!
Skit is part of April Awareness Month for queer, arab/arab american, middle eastern, asian/asian american, [...]

WestCo Cafe Thursday Night DOOM

Thursday night face-melting with WHITE MICE, DISAPPEARER, KENTUCKY FRIED DOOM, and JOCK JAMS:Date: Thursday April 17thTime: 8 pmLocation: WestCo Cafe
I haven’t seen any of these guys but I hear the experience is something like this:

WestCo Cafe Thursday Night DOOM

Thursday night face-melting with WHITE MICE, DISAPPEARER, KENTUCKY FRIED DOOM, and JOCK JAMS:Date: Thursday April 17thTime: 8 pmLocation: WestCo Cafe
I haven’t seen any of these guys but I hear the experience is something like this:

Dykes on Mikes, Precision Libido to play

Rayna Edwards ‘10 sends us word of a concert in the WestCo Café on Thursday, featuring Dykes on Mikes and Precision Libido:
Dykes on Mikes features Emily Meyer, Elise Herrig, Aliza Simons, and Aparna Lakshmi. They are all sophmores at Wesleyan. They will be covering songs by Melissa Etheridge at this show. Dykes on Mikes is [...]

Dykes on Mikes, Precision Libido to play

Rayna Edwards ‘10 sends us word of a concert in the WestCo Café on Thursday, featuring Dykes on Mikes and Precision Libido:
Dykes on Mikes features Emily Meyer, Elise Herrig, Aliza Simons, and Aparna Lakshmi. They are all sophmores at Wesleyan. They will be covering songs by Melissa Etheridge at this show. Dykes on Mikes is [...]

It’s Just Weird Now: 3 Plays about Friendship

Come to the WestCo Cafe TONIGHT at either 8 or 10 of clock to see three sweet plays.Directed by Maya Kazan ‘09 , Written by Halley Feiffer ‘07.Totes Free, totes the best way to spend 40 minutes of your Thursday evening.
(proper formatting of this post has temporarily been suspended pending reclamation of sanity from the [...]

It’s Just Weird Now: 3 Plays about Friendship

Come to the WestCo Cafe TONIGHT at either 8 or 10 of clock to see three sweet plays.Directed by Maya Kazan ‘09 , Written by Halley Feiffer ‘07.Totes Free, totes the best way to spend 40 minutes of your Thursday evening.
(proper formatting of this post has temporarily been suspended pending reclamation of sanity from the [...]